HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR MAT PROSECUTE FOREIGN GROUPS IN U. S. Daladier Is Urging Jobs For Strikers French Premier Ad vises Employers ,To Handle Labor With Care; Labor Situation and Italian Demands Torment France In Its Growing Crisis laris. Dec. 2. —(AP) —Premier Data dicr. with organized labor still smart ing from its defeat by his strong-arm methods, today suddenly warned em ployers to handle their wit!, care. His warning coincided with the outbreak of new strikes in protest a gainst discharges. Hundreds of thousands of French men who were without jobs because they heeded the call to Wednesday’s abortive general strike lined up to oe re-hired. Through Labor Minister Charles Pomaret, Daladier advised employers to re-hire all men possible, rejecting only known agitators. The advice car ried a veiled warning that refusal to take pack most of the strikers would lead only to real trouble. The labor situation shared the gov ernment’s anxious attention to Italian agitation concerning France’s North African protectorate. Design New Type Infantry Unit To Operate Swiftly Washington, Dee. 2.—(AP) —A new streamlined infantry regiment smal ler but far more mobile and harder hitting than either its World War counterpart, or the regiment of today, has received War Department *ap proval. Moving by motor truck, and armed with semi-automatic rifles, it is in tended to become a major unit in the high speed army on wheels, which is being developed to keep pace with postwar trends. While officials made public details of these plans today, Secretary Wood ring reported to President Roosevelt i.hat national defense requirements may hasten construction of a third and possibly larger set of locks for the Panama Canal. His report follow ed closely h|s recommendations to Mr. Roosevelt that the canal be made '‘impregnable.’’ Italy Joins Pact To Restrict Size Os Big Warships London. Dec. 2.—(AP)—ltaly today became the fourth adherent to she 1936 London naval treaty, joining the L’nited States, Britain, and France in the agreement to limit the size of in dividual warships. Italy’s instruments of accession were signed at the for eign office by Count Dino Grandi, Italian ambassador, and David Scott, counsellor of the foreign office. Forsyth Negro Is Executed For Dual Rape Raleigh, Dec. ?. —(AP) —To.* State cheated John Ernest Hove, 30-yeur 'id Forsyth county Negro, today lor the rape of a white woman November 'i' 3937. Howie also was under lsat» f-en u ce for the rape of a Negro girl Oc- U] p r 30, 1937 and State officials sit: j 1 was the only man they couki rd*”ill "bo had been given death sentences in ?wo separate trials held lit cl use ivcession. 'he Negro contended until :he end that he was innocent, sr.id Warden H. H. Wilson, hut Howie expressed holici he would go to heaven. Howie baptized last night. Howie walked into the death cham ,rr 10:29 a. m. He appeared to move * n a hurry, nervously. He lifted his ands &s a gesture toward Walter L*. Negro detective at Winstori »alem, and C. E. Caldwell, Negro un dertaker. Long, Caldwell and R. B. oberts, another Negro undertaker, execution and took owie’s body back for burial, ne gas was started at 10:31 a. m., t m ‘ minutes and five seconds lat pat 30; 43 a. m., Dr. Felda High ower, pri son physician, pronounced H( wie dead. • Howie was the 41st person executed m a by Bas and the 213th to h® P ut aea th at Central Prison since 1910. Ifottitersmt £1 atht Btstmfrh L THl E fsSai5 T S E E « v p 'C| g OF When French Workers Get Their Dander Up IKa* % hMBBI wmgm. WfSfjfek JUg «pp|| - gpP 2“5“ oetween strikers; and gendarmes have been reported in the latest crisis in France, marked by the general walkout of 2,000,000 members of the French labor unions. Police and military have been ordered uy Premier Dalacuer to see that utilities are in operation. Our picture shows gendarmes doing a bit of bat tling in recent labor disorders in Pari* (Central Prese) Three European Governments Battle For Lives In Crises New Role HjjF iMj H Shirley Temple, young screen star, dons the official badge designating he* Grand Marshal of the Tourna ment of Roses parade celebrating its Golden Jubilee, January 2, at Pasadena,. Cal. Fisher Body CIO Workers Begin Strike % * Flint, Mich., Dec. 2.—(AP) — The Fisher Body Company’s plant No. 1 employing from 6.000 to 7,000 men, closed at 12:30 p. m. today when mem bers of the CIO United Automobile Workers Union walked out on strike. The men left the plant a few min utes after completion of a strike vote, taken in connection with a prolonged dispute over wage rates in the pressed metal departments of the plant. UAW officials said the men voted 3,434 to 433 for the Strike. The plant, scene of one of the first sitdowns in the General Meters strike of 1937, had been employing 6,400 ‘"company otficials said sufficient workers had left their jobs so that it was impossible to continue eperatmns Fisher Body is a division of Geneiai Motors Corporation. newTresidentof ECUADOR ELECTED Quito, Ecuador, Dec. 2.—(AP)—Dr. Aurelio Mosquera Narvaez was eiect ed president of Ecuador today by the constituent assembly. ,He Acting President Manuel Marta Bv rero, who resigned yesterday withoi giving a reason. —ONLY DAILY NE IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND YIRGINDt. HENDERSON, N. Ta ' •* p Ffre? Others f njureti Jumping from Second Story; Cause Undetermined Washington, N. C., Dec. 2. —(AP) Two Negro patients lost their lives when fire gutted a three-story wooden wing of the Tayloe hospital teic* and a white patient was report ; d missing / T'he dean we~c listed as Su9 Gor "'Tr' V Washington, and Je-sdc Guin of Aurora. Mrs. Macon Tcoley, 23, of Pjnro, was unaccounted for save-al hours •*tcr the flames were brought unds~ °n l rl* and hospital attendants said they feared she had perished inside the building. Mrs. Elmo Ingalls, of this county, and Nellie Hodges, Negro woman of Washington, were injured when they leaped from second floor windows. Officials had not ascertained the cause of the fire. It was burning brisk ly when discovered albout 6:30 a. m. by James Robertson. Roberson quickly gave the alarm, and firemen and volunteers fought the flames for more than three hours before subduing them. The wing was occupied by eleven patients, eight of them Negroes. Death Toll From • Train-School Bus Crash Jnereased Salt Lake C'ty, 'Dec. 2. —(AP)— With the death of a youth early teday, toll of the nation’s worst school bus-train disaster rose to 23 identified victims. Sixteen youths, all occupants of the crowded bus that was hit tan miles south of here yesterday by a speeding freight train roaring through an early morning snow storm, were injured, three critical ly. Salt Lake General Hospital au thorities, said one badly mangled body remained unidentified. How ever, morgue attendants said it was possible the mangled form was part of one or several of the identified children. Soihe of the dead were so badly mangled that parents were not allowed to see the bodies. Rebel Air Force Takes Last Shot At U. S. Soldiers La Tour de Carol, France, Dec. 2.—(AP) —The Spanish insurgent air force, by chance or design, to day took a parting shut at the government’s Lincoln-Washington battalion by bombing a railroad at tbe French-Spanish frontier as more than 300 demobilized Amer ican volunteers left Spain. Five insurgent planes plunged 18 bombs on the railway outside the Spanish border town of Alp shortly after the Americans had crossed Into France. This was the largest exodus of American fight ers since the Barcelona govern ment decided to release all for eigners in its international brigade The volunteers, standing in safety on the railway station plat form in this border town, saw the bombs fall a short distance away. Ickes In Warning Os Cancellations On Increased Bid Washington, Dec. 2—-(AP)—Admin istrator Ickes said today a number of PWA regional offices had reported ap parent excessive increases in bid prices on .public works projects. He warned that wherever this oc curs, allotments would be rescinded and projects cancelled. “In' a number of instances,” Ickes said, ‘‘prices have jumped beyond all reasons. It will be Impossible to re design projects or to call for new bids because of the shortness of time be fore the construction deadline, which i? January 1.” WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy tonight And Sat urday, with slowly rising temper ature, followed by rain Saturday night and Sunday and. possibly rain in west portion and near the coast Saturday afternoon. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY Winner by Eyelash pr jg|M| Bp • .-j . sW^'Wmm jj^ 1% jra [ % * ft —- —; j Senator Guy M. Gillette, who was on the administration’s purge list but won re-election in the lowa con-j test by an eyelash, is shown as he returned to Washington, demon strating his margin of victory. (Central Press) Seek Means To Release German Jews Five Nations Pool Ef forts in London To Move Refugees Out of Germany London, Dec. 2.—(AP) —Five states men, representing the United States, Great Britain, France, the Nether lands and Brazil, tackled today the gigantic problem of finding sanctuary for the potential 5,000,000 European refugees who are seeking new homes. Informed sources said the group would try to crack- Germany’s flight tax rule, which strips Jews of vir tually all they own as they leave Ger many, tending to make them public charges in countries allowing them to enter. With that barrier removed, statesmen who form the inter-com mittee board formed last summer, would expect better reactions to the committee’s efforts in South Amer ica and British empire countries. Next Congress May Kill All Chain Stores In 1). S. '** 1 > J* * Patman Bill May Send Them All To Electric Chair; Babson Discusses Arguments for and Against Chains; Urges People To Speak Otlt BY ROGER W. BABSON, Copyright 1938, Publishers Financial Bureau, Inc. New York City, Dec. 2. — 1 A bill which could send the nationwide chain store systems to the electric chair comes up before the new* Congress in January. It would impose such a ter rific tax on the big ( retail combines that they would have only two alter natives: CD To break up; or (2) to go into bankruptcy. IP is a momentoys national issue. The pockptrbook of every American “bread-winner” is in volved. In fairness to all concerned, we should study the pros and cons of the question very carefully and give our congressmen and senators our op inions. What are the chains’ chief advan tages to the household? Most impor tant is the fact that they have re duced the prices of goods ten per cent on the average. Their leadership in cleanliness, modernization, and other good merchandising practices has been a real boon to those retailers 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Communists : And Nazis Singled Out » Justice Department Studying Evidence Turned Up by Dtea Committee; Units In* dicated To Be Agents for Parent Bodies Ope rating in Europe Washington, Dec. 2. (AP)~ Tni Justice Department is studying. seyri* - ously a request sos prosecution of the communist party, the German-Ambri can Bund and some other organiza tions for failing to register as agents of foreign principals. . Representatives Dies, Democrat* j Texas, recently asked the State t?e- ! oartment that such action be taken. Dies, chairman of the House commit tee investigating un-American activi ties, asserted that evidence submitted to his committee indicated that *he * communist party was an agent of the communist third internatlonale, which maintains headquarters at Moscow. In the absence of Secretary of State j Hull, Under Secretary Sumner Welles forwarded Dies’ letter to Attorney General Cummings, who referred it today to Bryan McMahon, chtef of tip* 1 Justice Department’s criminal divi sion, for careful investigation. M6M&- hon said he would give the matter close personal attention. Dies later indicated that cert4|p ‘‘front organizations" of the commuru ist party also were agents for the parent organization. He named speci fically the League for Peace and Democracy, the International Labor Defense, and Glvil Liberties Union. TheTtPSfe other indications,* Dies Add* ed, that the 'German-Amerlcan Bund represents the German Nazi party in this country. Girl Returns Home After . Kidnap Affair Oxon Hill, Md., Dec. 2.—(AP)—Wil liam B. Brown, father of 18-year-btdL Mary Brown, who re-appeared at hefc’ home last night after a 30-hour ab sence, said today she was abducted by a man who mistakenly thought he' could pay a ransom. When his daughter, a business school student, convinced the meh that he was unable to pay any ran som, she said they. released her. Sh& arrived haggard and in tattered clothes at the Brown home last night, saying the men, had freed her from;fth. automobile a short distance from tha farm house where she lived. The girl was in fairly good’ condi tion, her father said. A doctor examin ed her and declared that she had not been harmed. The girl said she had; twice become unconscious. Mary had been kept in a hut ever since she was abducted, she told the family. who have survived the multiple-store competition. By reducing prices of necessities, the chains have incre&sad the workers’ standard of living nearly five per cent. Lower prices and at tractive displays have also benefited farmers, processors, and manufactur ers through greater consumption. Much On Chain’s Side. Their advertising has been effective in stimulating the sale of more gqoda and it has provided local newspaptts with more revenue to give conuhtin-* ities better newspapers. The cbdihft have paid their share of the local jtax burden on their store properties either directly or through rent. They hftya paid their managers and clerks ait much as or more than the average fbr all retail stores. Moreover, under tjid prodding of their critics, their gers are gradually becoming a big ger factor in the civic life Os thyir community. The chains have their faults, tie. (Continued on Page Six.)